Entertainment / Literature / Asimovs Three Laws Of Robotics: Science fiction author Isaac Asimov originally posited Asimov's three laws in his short stories collected in I, Robot. These laws were mathematical limitations or hardwired parameters for robotic behavior as follows: (1) The First Law: Robots must not harm a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm. (2) The Second Law: Robots must obey direct commands from human beings, unless those commands would conflict with the First Law. (3) The Third Law: Robots must preserve their own existence, unless doing so would conflict with the Second or First Law. These three laws became a long-running framework for a number of science fiction plots in novels like The Caves of Steel. In later novels, the robots themselves end up facing ethical conflicts and end up altering their own programming to embrace a so-called 'Zeroth Law'
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